September
I DESIGNED YOU to live in union with Me. This union does not negate
who you are; it actually makes you more fully yourself. When you try to
live independently of Me, you experience emptiness and
dissatisfaction. You may gain the whole world and yet lose everything
that really counts.
Find fulfillment through living close to Me, yielding to My purposes for
you. Though I may lead you along paths that feel alien to you, trust that I
know what I am doing. If you follow Me wholeheartedly, you will
discover facets of yourself that were previously hidden. I know you
intimately —far better than you know yourself. In union with Me, you are
complete. In closeness to Me, you are transformed more and more into
the one I designed you to be.
“What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”
MARK 8 : 36
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book before one of them came to be.
PSALM 139 : 13 – 16
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being
transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the
Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 CORINTHIANS 3 : 17 – 18